Mobile Agents

Basic Concepts, Mobility Models, & the Tracy Toolkit

Peter Braun, Wilhelm Rossak

441 pages, parution le 04/02/2005

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Résumé

Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using available computing power and are not limited by platform. This emerging field is now poised to become a cornerstone for new Web-based ubiquitous computing environments. Mobile Agents provides a practical introduction to mobile agent technology and surveys the state of the art in mobile agent research. Students and researchers can use the book as an introduction to the concepts and possibilities of this field and as an overview of ongoing research. Developers can use it to identify the capabilities of the technology to decide if mobile agents are the right solution for them. Practioners can also gain hands-on experience in programming mobile agents through exploration of the source code for a complete mobile agent environment available through the companion website.

Features

Summarizes the state of the art in mobile agent research
Identifies the benefits and limitations of current mobile agent technology to help developers understand the possibilities of this new field
Extensive mobile agents web portal (www.mobile-agents.org) with the Java source code for a complete industrial-quality environment for mobile agents, with significant parts of the system open source

L'auteur - Peter Braun

Peter Braun , Center for Intelligent and MultiAgent Systems, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

L'auteur - Wilhelm Rossak

Wilhelm Rossak , Software Engineering Group, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Sommaire

Motivation for and Introduction to Mobile Agents
- Designing Innovative Distributed Systems
- From Client-Server to Mobile Agents
Mobile Agents--Concepts, Functions, and Possible Problems
- Mobile Agent Migration
- Mobile Agent Communication
- Mobile Agent Security
The Kalong Mobility Model--Specification and Implementation
- Specifications of the Kalong Mobility Model
- Using Kalong
- Evaluation
The Tracy Mobile Agent Toolkit
- Running a Tracy Agency
- Programming Agents with Tracy

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	Peter Braun, Wilhelm Rossak
Parution	04/02/2005
Nb. de pages	441
Format	19,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1125g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781558608177
ISBN13	978-1-55860-817-7